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March 2025

March 20, 2025

Thoughts, even in Poʻipū

A new item has appeared in the Interpreter Foundation's regular Thursday reprint series --...

March 16, 2025

“Reexploring the Book of Mormon”

As a small constituent part of a long-term project that I'm working on, I'll...

March 12, 2025

“A resting-place for the weary traveler”

Camrey Bagley Fox and I spent the first part of the day being filmed...

March 11, 2025

At Carthage Jail

We were up early and spent most of the first part of the day...

March 03, 2025

“Let me be one of that number.”

Tomorrow -- Tuesday -- I'm slated to spend a significant amount of the day...

March 02, 2025

A Succession of Continuity

To my surprise, the dramatic film Witnesses is still available tonight for streaming at...

February 2025

February 02, 2025

“Witnesses” is now available for free streaming!

I'm very pleased to announce that the 2021 Interpreter Foundation theatrical film Witnesses is...

January 2025

January 31, 2025

Who can be saved?

"Perspectives on the Soteriological Problem of Evil: Nuancing the “Universalist” Theologies of Henri de...

January 10, 2025

“The Reassuring Doctrine of the Resurrection”

My wife's remarkable father turned ninety-eight at the end of December. Up to just...

January 08, 2025

Interpreter is trying to help with “Come, Follow Him”

The Sunday School and personal study curriculum of the Church for 2025 will be...

December 2024

December 22, 2024

For 23 December 2024

Tomorrow -- Monday, 23 December 2024 -- will be the 219th anniversary of the...

October 2024

October 23, 2024

Wednesday, 23 October 2024

For the next two weeks or so, I'm not going to be able to...

October 17, 2024

The horror!

Have you seen Six Days in August yet today? You've already lost the morning....

October 09, 2024

“War and extermination is inevitable!”

One of the events depicted in Six Days in August is the destruction, by...

October 05, 2024

The next few days are vitally important

A few days ago, Mark Goodman (the writer and director of Six Days in...

September 2024

September 24, 2024

Trying to reach people wherever they are, however we can

Yes, I'm reminding you yet again of the Six Days in August event that...

September 13, 2024

“There are only two kinds of people in the end”

"Aftermath of the Martyrdom: Aspirants to the Mantle of the Prophet Joseph Smith," written...

September 04, 2024

Slightly more than a month to go!

As the release date for Six Days in August approaches, I find myself thinking...

September 01, 2024

Points that we want others to take away from the project

On 28 August 2024, I recorded a lecture in connection with the Interpreter Foundation's...

August 2024

August 28, 2024

Why this next film?

Mark Goodman, James Jordan, Russ Richins, and I had already been talking, while we...

August 18, 2024

It’s so big!

Retired federal judge Paul Warner is the featured interview in this latest very...

July 2024

July 22, 2024

An unexpected but pleasant sight at church today

We attended the middle of three English-language sacrament meetings today in the stake center...

July 18, 2024

“Let the woman learn in silence, with all subjection.”

I'm falling behind in calling these new short Interpreter Foundation videos to your attention,...

July 17, 2024

How Brigham Young (and John Taylor) Remembered Joseph

A new column of mine went up this morning in Meridian Magazine: "He Was...

June 2024

June 27, 2024

Today, let us remember.

I would guess that very few people, even among the Latter-day Saints, are thinking...

May 2024

May 26, 2024

“Six Days in August” has its gala European premiere!

Well, our new Interpreter Foundation theatrical film, Six Days in August, just had its...

May 21, 2024

“Among the most significant holy sites in the world”

I’ve just finished reading Keith A. Erekson and Matthew J. Grow, “Assuming Stewardship: Notes...

May 15, 2024

Of Decision-Making and Ignorance

I finished an important and good book the other day: Samuel T. Wilkinson, Purpose:...

May 07, 2024

They just keep on saying these things!

A new self-published book advocating a novel theory for the origin of the Book...

April 2024

April 28, 2024

Where it all began

I was pleasantly surprised to run into the core Interpreter Foundation filmmaking team --...